Zak H. | Bommyknocker Press

Something small is coming soon… #Mausritter

His Majesty the Worm His Majesty the Worm is a new-school game with old-school sensibilities: the classic megadungeon experience given fresh life through a focus on the mundanities and small moments of daily life inside t...

Hi I'm away from the big computer so I just want you to know you can buy HIS MAJESTY THE WORM from hismajestytheworm.games. The book is back in stock at Exalted Funeral! It is a good game and you should buy it.

Where are AD&D's High-Level NPCs? This is a question I've pondered quite a bit in my exploration of AD&D. Theoretically, my assumption would be that there's nothing to restri...

I dug through AD&D to find out: where are all the high-level NPCs? I talk about why it's an important question to ask & do some number crunching using an average AD&D city & some demographic figures I made up. It's better than nothing!

I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments!

And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.

The 10 types of special rooms "A Special is anything not exactly a trap, but placed for special reasons."   Moldvay Basic pg. B52 Traps, monsters, secret doors, and treas...

Of the different types of dungeon rooms, "Special" can be one of the hardest to write towards. This list of sub-categories of special rooms has great prompts!

In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)

INHERITORS - Proof of Life - Quickstart by SandroAD apocalyptic future-tech mayhem

The fever dream of the future's future ~ The boiling pot that humanity let itself cook in ~ An opportunity ~ A sprint ~ A vision ~ A proof of life ~

This is your first look at Inheritors (officially PWYW on Itch~)

sandroad.itch.io/proof-of-life

PUT PIKMIN IN YOUR MAUSRITTER GAME YOU COWARDS I figured I’d test out my new blog by reposting one of my favorite takes on with some quick art. Happy !...

Heyy, I have a blog now!

“I Thought I Heard Your Voice Just Then” is a new eight-page comic drawn by @jlaguff.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or purchase it on a pay-what-you-want basis on Itch.io (which I recommend, Bluesky compression being what it is):

hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard

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Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas — Prismatic Wasteland A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you n...

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas

Objects as Random Access Memory This afternoon I was working on some Christmas gifts in my woodshop while listening to an episode of the Yes, Indie'd podcast with of Backwards Tabletop, ta...

Cooked up this harebrained idea while making holiday gifts! Curious if it's been done before.

tbr.bearblog.dev/objects-as-r...

November 2025 - Jacked In We're approaching the end of the year, and the northern hemisphere is getting properly gray and wet now (the perfect weather to stay in and play RPGs). Perhaps the southern contingent will play outsid...

New Carouse, Carouse!

This time featuring, among other things, me writing about Over/Under, AI in games (not like that) from Patchwork Paladin, a review of Gorman's Larder by @giantrobottackler.bsky.social and a selection of blog posts, as always!

www.carouse.blog/november-202...

This series already has so much gameable juice. I love this short dungeon for being a perfect little adventure for the Shire’s tone.

YouTube video by Dice Goblin Games DANGER CLOSE - Solo Tactical TTRPG Actual Play

I recorded an actual play of DANGER CLOSE, my tactical military skirmish TTRPG! It gives a pretty good impression of how the game works, and I got carried away a bit in talking about it, because of course I did.
youtu.be/5jnaiti_O3M

The lay offs might be beginning at work, but I got that late review done.

Kingdomites Brutal Frontier! Hassle @hodagrpg.bsky.social for it. Trust me, it's worth it.

wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/10/king...

Bare Bones Survey of Skeletons — Prismatic Wasteland Embracing the silly origins of skeletons and why it makes them one of the more refreshing undead horrors to use in your games.

For this year’s spooky season post, I dig up the background of Skeletons, how they’ve been historically depicted in media (including D&D) and my favorite way to include them in my games
#osr #ttrpg

Glory as Reputation Use Glory as an instant reputation roll in Mythic Bastionland: who's heard of your Knight and how fame changes the world at the table.

Trying to shake the writing block, so I wrote up a tiny Mythic Bastionland hack: a quick Reputation roll I lifted from @samseer.bsky.social's Mothership house rule and tweaked slightly.

elmc.at/glory-as-rep...

The Play Reports Resources as Players - Over/Under

First of what I think will be many #over/under blogposts. This one is about how players have a lot more power than they may realize... theplayreports.com/posts/over-u...

Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft : Themes - Quicker Game Prep for The Sanic Hack Preparing a world with mix and match lists

ok here it is NEW BLOG POST! This is the first draft of a template for Sanic Hack prep that should make running the game's vibes easier! Or it won't, I'm not a Doctor.

Static Site: farmergadda.neocities.org/posts/themes...
Blogger Backup: farmergadda.blogspot.com/2025/10/them...

On the Road from the Three-farthing Stone to the Bridge of Stonebows - Middle-earth Hexmap An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project.  Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The East Road st...

If you were to leave the Shire without needing to hide from the public eye, you could walk from Hobbiton to the Brandywine Bridge. I explore this area as part of my Tolkien Hexcrawl project. (Bonus: Thoughts and opinions about writing interesting content for an established setting like Middle-earth)

Overloading the Faction Relationship Overloading the Faction Relationship Dan is working on a small game between bigger projects so obviously that means he needs to write a whole blog post to justify the inevitable scope creep! I Like Fa...

New on the blog: Overloading the Faction Relationship! Because we all know it's not what you know, it's WHO you know.

gemroomgames.itch.io/the-gem-room...

Ghost of Yotei: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Fans of Magnolia Keep may have noticed I've been quiet the last few weeks, and the simple reason for that is that Ghost of Yotei came ou...

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane game review to explain what I've been doing the past two weeks! Ghost of Yotei has solid fundamentals, but ultimately fails to live up to the legacy of its predecessor.

magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/10/ghos...

Devlog Has Come to This Town Content warning: This is a game about a plague. There’s basically no way I can’t talk about the current, ongoing one. I try not to look directly at it, here. Every year I try to do a little something ...

Now that AWS isn't being stupid:

Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him.

binarystar.games/posts/origin...

🚨A NEW (WEIRD)HOPE ALERT🚨

Hello all! I'll be part of this---writing an expansion to "To Put Away A Sword", my dead-giant-mecha adventure.

A sleeping godsoldier has reactivated, and is dragging its corpse to the sea! It has a belly full of biomechanical roe ...

Bathtub Review: Emergence Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…

This week in the Bathtub, its Emergence! Does this funnel module concentrate all the fun into a tiny container, or does it leave you as lost and confused as a babe? Find out!! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/20/b...

Alignment Languages are Socially Repulsive In my last post on languages in AD&D , I teased that alignment languages were a topic worthy of their own post. Was I right? Let's find out....

My contribution to the proud tradition of trying to understand alignment languages. I discuss why speaking alignment languages in AD&D is socially taboo, how then they are meant to be used to identify creatures with a common ethos, & what this suggests about what alignment language actually is:

Wrote a new #OSR focused blog post about how both players and GMs can make the play style more fun. With thanks to @magnoliakeep.itch.io, @serket08.bsky.social, and @dodo-decahedron.bsky.social.

billhook.bearblog.dev/how-to-make-...

Coloring Book Game Design OR BUILDING A LEXICON FOR PRINCESS PLAY   Two Men Contemplating the Moon - A Painting Caspar David Friedrich which'd help inspire the play ...

Two Blogs in One Week???

Today I'm talking about the ways in which "Restriction Breed Creativity" - And how coloring in the lines can still be quite expressive:

www.failforward.moe/2025/10/colo...

Found a tasty apple, for later.

On Categorization, Rule Buckets, and Diegesis I have a couple of points that I want to explore and I don’t feel committed to doing a particularly good job, so hopefully this is a topic that is of intere...

I invented an argument in my head that made me so mad I had to write a blog post about it, I hope you find something interesting in here.

tbr.bearblog.dev/on-categoriz...

A Leak in the Hole Factory, Pt. 2 Uh oh, the forces of evil are doing industrial sabotage in the Hole Factory.

Part 2 of my Blog Dungeon (Blungeon?), an adventure that has been described as an "absurdist, industrial adventure in a malfunctioning premium hole factory that sprung a leak".

#osr #rpg #blog

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